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PISCES ABDOMINALES. CLUPEA. 
CLUPEA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Caput: maxillarum superiorum mystacibus 
serratis. 
Membrana branchiostega radiis viii. bran- 
chice interne setacece. 
Corpus: abdominis carina serrata; pinna 
ventrales sape novem radiates. 
The head: the mystaces of the upper jaw 
serrated. 
Eight rays in the branchial membrane ; 
the branchiae setaceous internally. 
The body: the carina of the abdomen 
serrated; the ventral fins have frequent¬ 
ly nine rays. 
No. CLXXXVI. 
Clupea corpore oblongo-ovale; maxillis sub-equalibus, inf eriore truncata; pinna dorsalis radiis 
novemdecem. 
The Clupea with an oblong-oval body ; the maxillae nearly of equal length, the under 
truncate ; nineteen rays in the dorsal fin. 
Harengus minor indicus Willough. Ichth. App. Tab. \ .f. 2. 
Called by the Natives Kowal or Kowarloo. 
B. v. D. 19. P. 15. V. 8. A. 20. C. 22. 
The body oblong-oval, compressed, squamous ; scales large, orbicular, deciduous. 
The head small, compressed, naked; the front gently declivous, depressed, slightly striate. The mouth small, 
rather oblique, without lips; the jaws nearly of equal length; extractile, the upper emarginate, the under 
carinate, truncate, and covered by the upper. No teeth perceptible. Tongue small, acute, smooth, free. Palate 
narrow, not rough. Eyes middle, round, iris silvery. Nostrils double, in a shallow groove near the rostrum. 
The branchial opercula consist of three laminae; the two anterior rounded, the posterior roundish, but curve, 
both without scales : the membrane has live rays only; the aperture large, of a form somewhat triangular. 
The trunk. The back gently arched, a little convex ; the sides and tail compressed; the breast and abdomen 
thin, carinate, and serrated. The branchiae consist of four leaves, three pectinate, the setaceous denticules of 
the first very long. The lateral line supreme, hardly visible. The anus remote. 
The fins. The dorsal solitary, in the middle of the back, has nineteen declining rays soft and slender; the 
pectoral low, acuminate above; the ventral opposite to the dorsal, very short; the anal rays a little assurgent, 
but nearly equal; the caudal fin deeply bifid. 
The colour of the crown and back changeable green and blue; the face and opercula, silvery; the sides 
lighter than the back, the belly white. The dorsal and caudal fins have a greenish cast, the latter striped 
black, the other fins light, or whitish. 
The length of the subject to the caudal fin four inches four lines. 
Five inches and a half is the size of the largest. 
